There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
Daniel Radcliffe
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Dougray Scott
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman